Ummm Follks??

    Most recently made laptop/notebook computers support
booting from the PCMCIA slot.  One can get PCM adapters
for just about any of the FLASH memories (e.g. SD).  
It shouldn't be difficult to load an OS onto a 1GB
card and still have enough room to run the avionics app.
Take the disk out.

Dale R.
COZY MkIV #1254
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> From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2004/07/28 Wed AM 12:17:43 EDT
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: disc drives at altitude?
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>         Yes I did try it again. This time it didn't even make it to
> altitude. The first time was a more leisurely climb rate with 2 on board
> (maybe ~1000'/min) and it crashed (blue screen) at 10'300. we descended to
> below 10K and rebooted then slowly climbed again and at exactly 10,300' it
> crashed again. Reboot and again at exactly 10,300', blue screen again, but
> then it wouldn't reboot.
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>  Thanks for the info.  It sounds like this is a very real problem, and even
> if you get a drive that seems to work, one good bit of turbulence will
> likely knock it out.  I'd hate to think my GPS was on the verge of failure
> all the time, so I guess I'll forget any system that has a HD in it.  
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> Cheers,
>
> Rusty (fortunately, memory is cheap)
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